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Black and white photo of Chanie ”Charlie” Wenjack as a young boy. He's smiling.

The Lonely Death of an Ojibway Boy

Charlie Wenjack has come to symbolise the deadly horrors of Canada’s Residential Schools. Unfortunately, many details of his tragic story have been misrepresented in the process.

Robert MacBain

23 Apr 2024 · 18 min read

University of Toronto, King's College Circle, Toronto. University buildings with a Pride flag.

Investigating the Academy

In a recent speech to University of Toronto scholars, a Quillette editor explained why many of his fellow journalists are reluctant to report on administrative scandals at Canadian universities.

Jonathan Kay

19 Apr 2024 · 14 min read

A Different Way of Fighting

In the 18th instalment of ‘Nations of Canada,’ Greg Koabel describes the confusion that resulted when French and Indigenous fighters jointly assaulted an Iroquois village in 1615.

Greg Koabel

14 Mar 2024 · 28 min read

Immigrant Song

Canadians have had to formulate a new language to address new complications posed by immigration, and no one is quite sure how that language should sound.

George Case

6 Mar 2024 · 8 min read

Looking Back at the ‘Unmarked Graves’ Social Panic of 2021

A new book tries to explain how millions of Canadians became convinced that the bodies of 215 ‘missing’ Indigenous children had been discovered in British Columbia.

Tom Flanagan / Chris Champion

1 Mar 2024 · 12 min read

Make Way for the Jesuits

In the 17th instalment of ‘Nations of Canada,’ Greg Koabel describes how The Society of Jesus became a powerful player in the colonization of North America.

Greg Koabel

30 Jan 2024 · 24 min read

New Details in the Tragic Case of Toronto Educator Richard Bilkszto

A Freedom-of-Information request sheds light on the Toronto District School Board’s ‘abusive, egregious and vexatious’ anti-racism trainer.

Jonathan Kay

24 Jan 2024 · 7 min read

Sailing Into Canada’s Great ‘Northern Sea’

In the fifteenth instalment of his series on the history of Canada, Greg Koabel describes Henry Hudson’s tragic 1610-11 voyage to the saltwater bay that now bears his name.

Greg Koabel

11 Dec 2023 · 31 min read

Joseph Boyden Isn’t Indigenous. But his Historical Fiction Is Still Worth Reading

The author’s widely celebrated 2013 novel, ‘The Orenda,’ helped educate Canadians about their country’s colonial roots. It shouldn’t be cast into literary oblivion just because Boyden misrepresented his ancestry.

Andy Lamey

11 Nov 2023 · 34 min read

Hamas Terror Is Testing the Moral Credibility of Canadian Progressives

No movement that excuses the deliberate slaughter of innocent civilians—even under guise of anti-colonial ‘resistance’—can survive as a mainstream political creed.

Jonathan Kay

26 Oct 2023 · 9 min read

Betraying Their Maverick Roots, Fringe Festivals Have Become Ideological Gatekeepers

A former artistic director of the Nanaimo Fringe Festival describes how transgender activists engineered her ouster.

Bryony Dixon

24 Oct 2023 · 9 min read

Podcast #226: Eric Kaufmann’s New ‘Centre for Heterodox Social Science’

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with political scientist Eric Kaufmann about cancel culture, switching universities, and why academics need to have honest conversations about the down side of immigration.

Quillette

20 Oct 2023 · 1 min read

Champlain Goes to War

In the thirteenth instalment of our series on the history of Canada, Greg Koabel describes the crucial battlefield alliance that French explorers forged with Indigenous allies in 1609.

Greg Koabel

19 Oct 2023 · 26 min read

Canadian Parents (Finally) Push Back Against Gender Cultism

Many of us are simply tired of living in a society that gaslights citizens with officially sanctioned lies like ‘trans women are women‘

Jonathan Kay

23 Sep 2023 · 6 min read

A Cartographer for the Ages

In the eleventh instalment of his series on the history of Canada, Greg Koabel describes how Samuel de Champlain fundamentally redirected France’s transatlantic colonial project

Greg Koabel

9 Sep 2023 · 22 min read